Shania Twain IPA: [ʃəˈnaɪə 'tweɪn] OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for her prolific work in both the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music.[2] She is the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums being certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Twain has achieved both critical and financial success, having received five Grammy awards, 27 BMI Songwriter awards,[3] and she has sold over 65 million albums worldwide to date including 48 million in the USA alone.[4] She is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era, with approximately 33,591,000 sales through to April 5th 2008, based on relatively few releases.
